In order to deliver improved adult social care services for residents, Torbay has co-produced a vision with the community, voluntary and care sectors working in partnership with Torbay Council and South Devon and Torbay NHS Foundation Trust staff.

To meet the challenges and deliver the vision the local Adult Social Care Strategy, sets out the ambition, values, ways of working, outcomes, delivery and operating model.  The Council will also be asked to consider including the Adult Social Care Strategy to the Council’s suite of Policy Framework documents thereby recognising the strategic significance of the Adult Social Care Strategy.

That Cabinet recommends to Council:

1.    That the list of Policy Framework documents set out in Torbay Council’s Constitution be updated to include the Adult Social Care Strategy; and

2.    Subject to 1. above, the Adult Social Care Strategy as set out in Appendix 1 to the submitted report be approved.

To ensure that the Council has an Adult Social Care Strategy which sets out the best approach to meet the challenges it faces.

The alternative options are to amend to the strategy, or decide not to approve and therefore to not have a strategy in this respect.  There was also an option to decide whether to include the strategy as a Policy Framework document. It was recommended to include it in order to recognise the importance of the strategy to the Council and its residents.

The recommendation of the Cabinet will be considered at the Council meeting on 20 September 2023.

The Adult Social Care Strategy sets out the vision for thriving communities where people can prosper.

The Strategy outlines how by working together improved adult social care services for residents in Torbay can be delivered.  It builds upon the pioneering integrated journey for social care which started in 2005 and more recently focussed on developing an integrated care model that puts a strengths-based approach at its heart focussing on what matters most to people.

At the meeting Councillor Tranter proposed and Councillor Tyerman seconded a motion that was agreed unanimously by the Cabinet, as set out above.

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